Obituaries

Local Obituaries for Richmond county


Walter Jeff Aiken

Walter Jeff Aiken

Apr 7, 2012

Dr. Jeff Aiken Jr. Dr. Walter Jeff Aiken, Jr. 79 of 104 Grey Fox Run Rockingham died Saturday April 7, 2012 at his home. Dr. Aiken was born December 11, 1932 in Rowland, NC, son of the late Walter Jeff Aiken, Sr. and Julia Arrington Aiken. He was a graduate of Rowland High School, the University of South Carolina and...

Loyde Mayo Middleton

Loyde Mayo Middleton

Apr 3, 2012

Loyde Mayo Middleton, 86, of Laurinburg, N.C., died April 3, 2012, at Scotia Village, after a long battle with Alzheimer’s Disease. Rev. Middleton was born in 1925 in Marked Tree, Arkansas, to the late Alma and Grady Middleton. He received his education at Tennessee Technical University along with attending Candler School of Theology at Emory University. Rev. Middleton had an...

Leon DeVaughan Roberts

Leon DeVaughan Roberts

Apr 1, 2012

Leon DeVaughan Roberts, 56, of Rockingham, died Sunday, April 1, 2012 at his home. Mr. Roberts was born June 9, 1955 in Statesboro, GA, a son of the late Lester DeVaughan Roberts and Fannie Ruth Benton Roberts Brown. He had been employed in construction. Surviving are his wife, Collette Colletti Roberts of the home; sons, SFC Ian Roberts of Clarksville,...

Julia Evans Cottingham

Julia Evans Cottingham

Mar 31, 2012

Julia Evans Cottingham 78, of Rockingham died Saturday, March 31, 2012 at Lilly Bennett Nursing Center in Wadesboro N.C Julia was born in Richmond County on March 7, 1934 a daughter of the late James M. and Vera Belle Simmons Evans. She graduated from Rohanen High School and attended Richmond Community Collage and Sandhills Community Collage. She was a legal...

Robert Allen Williams

Robert Allen Williams

Mar 30, 2012

“Little Robert” Williams Robert Allen Williams, 57 of Rockingham died Friday, March 30, 2012 at Richmond Pines Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center of Hamlet. He was born February 28, 1955 a son of the late Allen and Mary Thompson Williams. He was retired from Richmond Yarns. He was a member of Ellerbe Pentecostal Holiness Church. He served his country in the...

David Andrew Hildreth

David Andrew Hildreth

Mar 28, 2012

David Andrew Hildreth, 70, of Rockingham, passed away Monday, March 28, 2012 at FirstHealth Moore Regional Hospital in Pinehurst following a brief illness. David was born March 20, 1942 in Winchedon, MA, a son of the late James and Frances Harrington Hildreth. He was a graduate of Murdoch High School in Winchendon, Ma and Wentworth Institute in Boston, MA. He...

Henry Hobert Hudson

Henry Hobert Hudson

Mar 26, 2012

Henry Hobert Hudson, 88, of Rockingham, passed away Monday, March 26, 2012 at Sandhills Regional Medical Center in Hamlet. Mr. Hudson was born February 29, 1924 in Richmond County,a son of the late William David and Lydia Jane King Hudson. He had attended Mt.Olive Baptist Church and had worked with Aleo Manufacturing, Sandhurst Hosiery and Pinebluff Products prior to his...

Margaret Rorie Allen

Margaret Rorie Allen

Mar 25, 2012

Margaret Rorie Allen, 83, of Ellerbe, passed away Sunday, March 26, 2012 at her home. Mrs. Allen was born March 11, 1929 in Moore County, a daughter of the late John Sylvester and Minnie Freeman Rorie. She was a graduate of Rockingham High School, Class of 1947, a charter member of Crestview Baptist Church, where she had served on numerous...

Thomas Durant Deason

Thomas Durant Deason

Mar 22, 2012

Mr. Thomas Durant Deason Sr, 77 of Rockingham died Thursday, March 22, 2012 at FirstHealth Richmond Memorial Hospital. Thomas was born January 10, 1935 a son of the late Harvey and Nora Cheves Deason in Mt. Crogan in Chesterfield County S.C. He retired from the U.S. Army in May of 1974. He was greens keeper for Willow Lake Golf Course...

James Edward Chronister

James Edward Chronister

Mar 19, 2012

James Edward “Pop” Chronister, 73, of Rockingham, passed away Monday, March 19, 2012 at his home. Pop was born December 23, 1938 in York Co., SC, a son of the late Coy Chronister and Loma Ashley Chronister Sharpe. He was a member of Abundant Life Church and had retired as a Tech Sergeant from the US Air Force. Following his...

Helen Virginia Rush

Helen Virginia Rush

Mar 13, 2012

Helen V. Rush Helen Virginia Haywood Rush, 59, of 107 Pinebark Trail, Rockingham died Tuesday March 13, 2012 in First Health Moore Regional Hospital. Born July 9, 1952 in Marlboro County, SC, a daughter of the late James and Lizzie Mae Teague Haywood, she was a homemaker and an active member of Highland Pines Baptist Church until her health prevented...

George Moore Rankin

George Moore Rankin

Mar 12, 2012

George Moore Rankin, 86, of 2024 Brookbank Road Rockingham died Monday March 12, 2012 in First Health Moore Regional Hospital. Born February 20, 1926 in Richmond County a son of the late Robert Moore and Frankie Thompson Rankin. He was preceded in death by his parents, a daughter, Patsy Rankin Covington, brothers; Dolph and Bob Rankin, sisters; Ellen Nelson, Ollie...

Guy Lewis Overcash

Guy Lewis Overcash

Mar 9, 2012

Guy Lewis Overcash,83, of Ellerbe, passed away Friday, March 9, 2012 at his home following a long battle with cancer. Guy was born August 14, 1928 in Rowan County, NC, a son of the late Robert Arwell "Bub" and Mary Eunice "Nicey" Fowler Overcash. Following graduation from Winecoff High School in Concord he joined the United States Air Force. He...

Betty Jo Searcy

Betty Jo Searcy

Mar 8, 2012

Mrs. Betty Jo Bullard Searcy, 75 of Rockingham passed away Thursday, March 8, 2012 at FirstHealth Richmond Memorial Hospital. Betty Jo was born June 30, 1936 in Richmond County, a daughter of the late Bernice Merlin and Martha Ellen Adcock Bullard. She retired from Sandhurst and Sara Lee Hosiery where she worked in payroll and safety. She was an active...

Frances West Wallace

Frances West Wallace

Mar 8, 2012

Mrs Frances West Wallace, 84 of 143 Mill Street Rockingham died Thursday March 8, 2012 in Morrison Manor, Laurinburg, NC. She was born February 16, 1928 in Weldon, NC a daughter of the late George Franklin and Hattie Boyette West. She was retired from the mending room of JP Stevens. Frances and her husband Clay were active members of Pee...

Woodford Alexander Sherrill

Woodford Alexander Sherrill

Mar 2, 2012

Woodford A. Sherrill, 90, of Ellerbe, beloved husband, father and grandfather, passed away Friday, March 02, 2012 at FirstHealth Richmond Memorial Hospital in Rockingham, following a brief illness. Mr. Sherrill was born December 10, 1921 in Richmond County, a son of the late Roderick Webb and Lula Dora Rankin Sherrill.He was a graduate of Ellerbe School, Class of 1939 and...

Alene Moore Wiggins

Alene Moore Wiggins

Feb 26, 2012

Alene Lee Moore Wiggins, 71, of Rockingham, passed away Sunday, February 26, 2012 at her home. Alene was born May 1, 1940 in Durham, NC, a daughter of the late Henry Moore and the late Virginia Hudgins Moore Henderson. She was an active member of the Rockingham Church of God of Prophecy, where she had been a Sunday School Teacher,...

Edna Norton Spivey

Edna Norton Spivey

Feb 26, 2012

Edna Mae Norton Spivey, 84 of Ellerbe, passed away Sunday, February 26, 2012 at the Hermitage Retirement Center in Rockingham. Mrs. Spivey was born July 5, 1927 in Richmond County, a daughter of the late Henry Lee and Mattie Frances Smith Norton. She was a member of First Baptist Church in Ellerbe, where she had been active with the Women...

Albert Eli Shankle

Albert Eli Shankle

Feb 24, 2012

Albert Eli Shankle, 87, of Ellerbe, died Friday, February 24, 2012 at Rockingham Manor in Rockingham. Mr. Shankle was born April 27, 1924 in Richmond County, a son of the late Herbert and Mishie Greene Shankle. He had served his country in the US Army during World War II and had retired as Parts Manager with Dewitt Trucking Company. He...

Robert Rufus Russell

Robert Rufus Russell

Feb 23, 2012

Robert Rufus “Bob” Russell, 85, of Ellerbe, died Thursday, February 23, 2012 at Autumn Care of Biscoe. Mr. Russell was born December 12, 1926 in Montgomery County, a son of the late David Alexander and Rosa Belle Hinson Russell. He was a member of Saron Baptist Church, where he had served as a deacon, a member of the Ellerbe Farm...

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